Improvement in stove attachments for utilizing heat



Patented March 6,1877.

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MM, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C

UNITED TATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH MGGONNELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE ATTACHMENTS FOR UTILIZING HEAT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,160, dated March 6,1877; application filed June 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH MOOONNELL, of Cleveland, in the county ofOuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Stove Attachments for Utilizing Heat; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clearaand exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an attachment or implement for stoves, wherebythe heat after its primary use may be further utilized for otherpurposes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view of a device according tomy invention, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same,the arrows indicating the course and direction of the heat.

My invention consists in the following parts and combinations, ashereigafter specified and claimed, wherein A isasimplering, cylinder, orthe like, composed of metalor any suitable material, open at both ends.The part A may be made of any dimensions or fashion desired.

From its side proceeds the flue B, of any suitable length anddimensions. Instead of the flue B proceeding from the part A, there maybe a simpleopening made into said part A. If desired, a damper may beprovided that shall govern the escape of heat through the said openingor flue B.

The operation of my device is as follows: It is placed over the sourceof heat, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and covered either by a lidor by anything desired to be heated, such as a kettle or the like.

It will be apparent that the heat will not only act upon said kettle,but will also escape through the opening or flue B, where it may hereceived, and conducted in any suitable manner to be utilized elsewhere.For instance, it may be conducted through a waterreservoir, and made tomaintain a supply of warm water, or it may supply heat to a drying orwarming chamber.

My invention is designed to be especially adaptable to portable stoves,such as gasstoves, oil-stoves. &c., although I do not confine myself toits employment upon any particular stove or source of heat.

C is a water-reservoir, which may or may not be employed; but, forordinary domestic purposes, it will usually be convenient to employ it.It will he observed that the flue B enters the side of the saidreservoir 0, and passes into it, making an elbow-bend upward through thesaid reservoir. This elbow-bend is preferably made abrupt, as shown inthe drawings, though it may be made curved. The abrupt form, however,serves the more efi'ectually to break up any direct draft. and therebycause the heat to expend itself upon the walls of the said flue B. Theflue within the reservoir is so located as to be entirely surrounded bythe contained Water.

I do not know that the fluepf an oil-stove has ever before been madecombining with it a water-reservoir, so as to be heated by the escapingproducts of combustion.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of the ring, cylinder, or body A,and a reservoir or other heatingchamber of a stove, the same beingrelatively independent and detachable, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

2. The combination. with the ring A, provided with' vent or flue B, ofthe independent water-reservoir O, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HUGH McGONNELL. Witnesses:

L. L. LEGGETT,

FRANCIS TOUMEY.

